| Description |
1 online resource (343 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Theoretical Issues. 1. A Defense of the New Natural Law Theory. 2. Recent Criticism of Natural Law Theory. 3. Natural Law and Human Nature. 4. Does the 'Incommensurability Thesis' Imperil Common Sense Moral Judgments? 5. Natural Law and Positive Law. 6. Free Choice, Practical Reason and Fitness for the Rule of Law -- pt. 2. Moral and Political Questions. 7. Religious Liberty and Political Morality. 8. Marriage and the Liberal Imagination. 9. What Sex Can Be: Alienation, Illusion or One-Flesh Union. 10. Making Children Moral: Pornography, Parents and the Public Interest. 11. Public Reason and Political Conflict: Abortion and Homosexuality. 12. Natural Law and International Order -- pt. 3. Dialectical Engagement |
| Summary |
In Making Men Moral, his 1993 book, George questioned the central doctrines of liberal jurisprudence and political theory. In his new work he extends his critique of liberalism, and also goes beyond it to show how contemporary natural law theory provides a superior way of thinking about basic problems of justice and political morality. Not content merely to defend natural law from its 'cultured despisers', he deftly turns the tables and deploys the idea to mount a stunning attack on regnant liberal beliefs about such issues as abortion, sexuality, and the place of religion in public life. Students as well as scholars in law, political science, and philosophy will find George's arguments stimulating, challenging, and compelling |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Natural law.
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Natural law
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98030745 |
| ISBN |
9780191683343 |
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0191683345 |
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